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Wang Feng (front, R) and other students gesture and shout slogans during their morning exercise before a training course at the Huaxia Liangtse Massage Training Center in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China, Feb. 17, 2014.

Feng, a young mother from Henan province, decided to train as a masseuse to help support her family. She trained with Huaxia Liangtse, a massage company established 17 years ago in Jinan, capital of China's Shandong province.

It now has over 300 branches in China and has also opened outlets abroad. A training center for the company in Henan has trained well over a thousand foot massage students and the number is growing year by year.

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Wang Feng rests on a bed before she leaves for work at a Liangtse Wangjing store in Beijing, at Huaxia Liangtse Massage Training Center, Feb. 19, 2014.

Wang, a young mother from Henan province, decided to train as a masseuse to help support her family.

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Students look at a chart explaining how gaining new skills will increase their pay, during a company culture course at the Huaxia Liangtse Massage Training Center, Feb. 18, 2014.

The chart shows a masseuse's monthly salary ranging from 2,500 yuan ($408) at the lower level to master level of 1,0000 yuan ($1,632).

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Wang Feng watches her fellow students practice massage on each other during a training course, Feb. 18, 2014.

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Students sit in front of acupuncture charts as they wait for a training course to begin at Huaxia Liangtse Massage Training Center in Zhengzhou, Feb. 18, 2014.

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A student presses down on the wrist of a fellow student, which halts the blood flow into the hand, as she practices hand massage during a training course, Feb. 18, 2014.

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A student rubs acupoints on the foot of a fellow student as they practice massage, Feb. 17, 2014.

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A student stretches the back of a fellow student during a training course, Feb. 17, 2014.

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Wang Feng (2nd R, first row) and fellow masseuses listen to an assistant manager during a daily morning meeting at the Huaxia Liangtse Wangjing store in Beijing, Feb. 21, 2014.

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Wang Feng (R) and a fellow student watch a senior masseur mark acupoints on a foot during pre-job training at the Huaxia Liangtse Wangjing store in Beijing, Feb. 21, 2014.

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Wang Feng eats a baked sweet potato while she waits for a taxi as she travels to work at a Huaxia Liangtse Wangjing store in Beijing, Feb. 19, 2014.

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Wang Feng looks in a mirror as she combs her hair in her dormitory at Huaxia Liangtse Massage Training Center, Feb. 19, 2014.

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Wang Feng (L) folds a sheet, as she packs after finishing her training and being assigned to work at a Liangtse Wangjing store in Beijing, at Huaxia Liangtse Massage Training Center in Zhengzhou, Henan province Feb. 19, 2014.

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Wang Feng (L) and fellow students listen to a senior masseur explain the company's service standards and work flows during pre-job training at the Huaxia Liangtse Wangjing store in Beijing, Feb. 20, 2014.